For all who want GF banned from MN - so does she!!

[mummygow]

As you are all prob aware I follow the Gf routine and am also on her website and this was posted for us to see.

Dear Members,

In response to your emails regarding the statement in The Times Newspaper on 9th May 2006. We would like to confirm that neither Gina or her lawyers have put pressure on Mumsnet regarding the criticism that her methods receive on their forums. Gina was forced to seek legal
advice regarding other very serious issues with Mumsnet, and we will in the near future make a public statement as to her reasons for this. It would appear that some Mumsnet members are demanding a ban of the
Gina Ford name on the site. Gina herself would welcome this, as her forthcoming statement will confirm, she has for very valid reasons, no wish to be associated with the Mumsnet site.

i was also thinkign amazon

one paranoid little woman

someone report my post please

Talking of She Who Must Not Be Named (perhaps we could call her Voldemort?) did anyone read \link{http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1758757,00.html\this} article in the Guardian?

"One is left feeling that the love of parents Stadlen-style is much more like the love of God than those who follow Ford."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

It has gone hasn't it? The review said something like - you could get all this info for free from a parenting site, which is probably where she got it from. But it's gone!!!!

Forldermort?

So essentialy we can all be critical of each others methods of parenting (within the posting guidelines) but one Woman is above any critism???

she is a naaatter

How do you get rid of Amazon reviews- I didn't know you could.Or was I previously looking at the hardback version or something. I cannot find it.

no you cant get rid of them, they delete them

Her new book on Amazon:
"After all, this book promises to teach parents tried and tested methods to get their baby to sleep through the night by the time they are 10 weeks old."

Was it a user's review?

oh - so why do they delete them? I've seen lots of bad reviews on Amazon

yep it was Socci.

Goodness me - this all sounds sooooo childish ! on both sides....
Pupuce walks off in disgust at this really stupid issue !

oh esp of the rainbow fish, she was selfish bitch from what I can gather

This is the quote from The Times

“Mothers today face relentless criticism and pressure,” bemoans the synopsis for Good Mother, Bad Mother, the latest of the many, many tomes by the parenting guru Gina Ford. The online community of mums who run the mumsent.com website know this only too well. They have grown used to “relentless criticism and pressure” from Ford’s lawyers whenever anybody criticises her methods on their forum.

it was a bad review but not personally offensive, the review slagged off the book, not her.

pupuce = neutral for arguments sake

MP .. think you missed the beginning of that quote .. here .. its an interesting proposition IMO

"Stadlen's philosophy is that a mother can either trust her baby to develop by stages, when ready, in the context of supportive relationships, or regard her baby as a product of "evil human nature, or original sin", which requires that he or she be trained into routine. One is left feeling that the love of parents Stadlen-style is much more like the love of God than those who follow Ford."

So I guess that message from the GF website was correct.

Oh I see this is her new book: "\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091898765/qid=1147372389/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i5_xgl/202-7819232-4531830\Good Mother, Bad Mother"}

""Good Mother, Bad Mother" is an illuminating, moving and thought-provoking study of this enigmatic question. Never before has the subject of motherhood been tackled with such unflinching honesty"

What a horrid title

thing is mummygow, rude vulgar and nasty comments are not illegal or in themselves libellous
I know nothing about the woman except what I read in her books and her interviews
but I can't post what I think about her because of threats of legal action
it stinks
like arfy I await with baited breath the "very serious issues"

i thinks she needs her ladygarden cutting

get chapsmum to do it with her dp's clippers..there's a whole thread on it

Twiglett good point

it was an interesting point of view

theology applied to parenting techniques - don't get a lot of that in the Guardian :)

hehe am liking Foldermort